"The fish stinks from the head down. I can tell you two fish that don't stink. That's me and the President. "
"If Reince wants to explain he's not a leaker, let him do that."
"I also want you to know I spent about 15 minutes on the phone talking with the President of the United States who has given me his full support and his full blessing."
"I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to s--- my own c---."

"Underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing."
"I was teasing you. It was sarcastic. It [above comment to Ryan Lizza] was one Italian to another."
"We had dinner last night. I sat next to the first lady. I love the president."
"I spoke with him for 15 minutes. I'm far from in trouble."
"What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over. I'm going to fire every one of them, and then you haven't protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks."

"There are people inside the administration that think it is their job to save America from this President. That is not their job."
"What the President and I would like to tell everybody, we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the white house."
"Those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago, people would have been hung for those types of leaks."

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"I can't have dinner with the guy, five minutes later, journalists know I'm having dinner."
"I can speak for my own actions. (Reince is) going to need to speak for his own actions."
"Now that I'm there, they're trying to figure out how to eject me from the West Wing."